This Month
Russia using WW1 chemical weapons in Ukraine: US
The US made the accusation as the French president stepped up calls for Europe to consider sending troops to Ukraine in the future.
- Constant Méheut and Marc Santora
April
How Russia’s cheap, old bombs are changing the Ukraine war
Moscow is retrofitting “very scary, very lethal” Soviet-era weapons and launching them from beyond the reach of Ukraine’s air-defence systems.
- Christopher Miller
March
- Analysis
- Film awards
And the Oscar goes to … a movie most people have seen
The clear best-picture favourite “Oppenheimer” is steam rolling toward the kind of big-movie dominance the Academy Awards hasn’t seen in two decades.
- Jake Coyle
February
- Opinion
- Defence
Keating’s strategic illusion dies hard
The former prime minister’s timid isolationism, leaving others to do the heavy lifting, has its roots deep in Labor’s history.
- Alex McDermott
November 2023
- Analysis
- Vale
Kissinger’s advice to aspiring leaders still holds
The arch foreign policy realist both intrigued and infuriated those around him and so many who have tried to assess his legacy.
- James Curran
What Henry Kissinger told the Financial Review in 1995
The diplomatic powerhouse has died at age 100. Here is an extract from a 1995 speech in Sydney.
- Henry Kissinger
- Opinion
- Review
Why we’re still in love with the toxic myth of the ‘Great Man’
The theory that history is defined by alpha males feels unfashionable and offensive – but we can’t let it go.
- Antony Beevor
Huge pro-Palestinian march in London
The large protest supporting the Palestinian cause coincided with Armistice Day, when Britain commemorates those who fought in World War I and subsequent conflicts.
- Megan Specia, Stephen Castle and Esther Bintliff
- Opinion
- World elections
A Trump win would change the world
If Donald Trump were to return to the White House as president, the implications for the US, its allies and the global economy are sure to be profound.
- Martin Wolf
October 2023
- Analysis
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Hamas apocalypse has crafted a new world order
For now, many believe that the disasters will be borne only by the populations of Israel and Gaza. But there are already signs of escalation.
- Peter Frankopan
May 2023
Australia, Greece work on Gallipoli remembrance trail
Australia’s governor-general and Greece’s president turn the first soil on a $4.9 million open air museum at the former Anzac bases on Lemnos.
- Kevin Chinnery
February 2023
- Opinion
- Voice to parliament
The Voice referendum is not 1967
A loss or narrow victory will set back reconciliation – that’s a truth advocates of both the Yes and No side must surely be able to see.
- John Roskam
January 2023
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
What should the world do when this war is over?
A healthy post-Ukraine world order has to look more like 1945 than the lost peace which followed the First World War.
- Harold James
September 2022
The WWI battlefield visit that brought Richard Marles to tears
The defence minister’s grandfather was decorated for gallantry in World War I. On a recent visit to France, he found himself in the field where his grandfather’s courage helped win the war.
- Updated
- Matthew Drummond
July 2022
After losing Luhansk, Ukraine forces regather for defence of Donetsk
The capture of the city of Lysychansk completed the Russian conquest of Luhansk, one of two regions in Donbas.
- Tom Balmforth and Max Hunder
May 2022
Ukraine could be start of third world war: Soros
George Soros says Russia’s invasion could spiral into a conflict that might lead to an end of Western civilisation.
- Updated
- Chris Williams and Joe Barnes
April 2022
Remains of 17 French WWI soldiers buried at Gallipoli
The remains were found during restoration work on a castle on Turkey’s north-western Canakkale Peninsula, the site of the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign.
- Mehmet Guzel
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
The West’s ‘arsenal of democracy’ is stretched at crucial moment
Massive arms supplies to Ukraine are quickly depleting Western armories just as governments fear they may need weapons for their own defence.
- Hal Brands
March 2022
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
Putin has no good way out, and that really scares me
If you’re hoping that the instability that Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has wreaked on global markets and geopolitics has peaked, your hope is in vain. We haven’t seen anything yet.
- Thomas L. Friedman
IMF, World Bank to approve billions in Ukraine support
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank are working on a multi-billion dollar support package for Ukraine, with the first instalment set to be approved within days.
- Ronald Mizen
